A ROAD safety campaigner warns someone will be seriously hurt or killed unless speed restrictions are enforced at a dangerous Frodsham bend which is crossed by a public footpath.

Tina Carroll collected more than 60 signatures on a petition requesting speed restrictions at the corner where bridleway 21a crosses Manley Road.

Miss Carroll, of Manley Road, Frodsham, said she and her family had lived near the corner for four years and had become increasingly concerned by the dangers it poses.

She said: 'My main concern is that the bridleway crosses the road at a blind corner after a mile-long straight piece of road. There is a sign saying 'footpath' but nothing on the road to mark a crossing.

'The local traffic and people who commute to work can go round the corner at 70mph. If there is a tractor at the top going at 3mph, there's nowhere else to go because there is a car coming the other way.

'Someone's going to get seriously hurt if not killed.

'It's a listed bridleway and a public right of way and yet there's nothing there to protect anybody.'

She added: 'So many people come from out of the area because it's a listed path and it is listed in a lot of the walking books sold locally.

'Walkers sit sometimes at the corner and eat sandwiches. They don't realise how dangerous this road is.

'People come to this area because it is so picturesque and nice and the kids can go down to the forest and play. They just don't realise the danger at the top of the road.'

Miss Carroll spent a month collecting signatures from people who walked past her house and those she came across in the forest.

She said: 'People were more than happy to sign it to say it's lethal. There could have been more but you think if this doesn't make it happen, what will?'

She said the worst times were during rush hours, from 7.30-9am and 4.30-6pm.

She said she would welcome an interactive sign flashing 'Slow Down' like the one in Delamere Forest.

Miss Carroll has presented her six-page petition to town and borough councillor Brian Lloyd. He has sent it to county engineer Alan Stilwell asking the matter be given 'serious consideration'.

Cllr Lloyd wrote: 'I noted that the 'Slow' road marking on the approach from Frodsham has been removed - I understand after work from United Utilities - and that the marking from the opposite direction requires renewing.

'Although reinstatement of these signs will go some way in addressing the danger, I believe further action is required to warn motorists that users of the bridleway cross at this point; this crossing is used as much by walkers as the Delamere Forest crossing which has an interactive sign.'

A spokesman for Cheshire County Council said: 'We are in the process of replying to Cllr Lloyd's letter and when we are sure he has got the reply as a matter of courtesy we will comment on the content.'